Without a doubt people have different tastes: I consider that the most important thing in a restaurant is delicious food and perfect service, which includes tablecloths, china, silverware and glasses. However, a series of restaurants where the attraction is the place and “the experience”, not the food served, have popped-up. The more extravagant the better, more people are attracted. Take a look at this brief list:

Dinner in the Sky, dining up in the air

This experience of dining in the air at an altitude of 150 feet is organized by a Belgian company that created it in Brussels 10 years ago and nowadays covers 40 countries. Dinner is on a dangling platform hung from a giant crane, where table and chairs are set. The organizers say that their success lies on “exclusiveness and safety”. Besides a chef, a waiter and an entertainer, only 22 diners per occasion (breakfast, lunch or dinner) sit at a revolving chair with a safety belt. Food has to be simple due to the small space, and the price high, in accordance with the height of event. More info and bookings at www.dinnerinthesky.com

El Diablo is located on top of a volcano inside Timanfaya national park in the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands. There is a giant grill where meat and fish are cooked (at 450 degrees F) with the heat generated by the volcano. The locals say that in this place instead of regular fire they use heat from hell. The volcano has not had an eruption since 1824, so it will be a quiet event and a quite hot one for sure. The arid and mountainous landscape is spectacular, a unique experience.

A restaurant for dining in the nude….I told you, ´to each his own´…. It opened this year in London from June to August and they had a waiting list of over 5,000. According to the founder, they closed because the venue was too small, had no air conditioning and it was very hot. Hot In London and in the nude??? Any way, they will be opening in Paris in September, the first restaurant to offer a ´culinary experience in the nude´. Dress code will be Adam and Eve´s, so guests will have to leave their clothes and all their belongings in a locker, including cameras and phones, since pictures are forbidden. There will be another room for more modest guests who don´t want to bare it all. The staff will wear clothes, for hygienic reasons. The address has not been released yet, but the name will be Bunyadi Paris.

I think I have given you a lot to talk about….but there will be a second chapter on extravagant restaurants coming soon! What they all have in common no matter how extravagant they are is that their clients love Sherry wines, of course!!